Bents Ledge
Bents Ledge is an island in Bristol, Massachusetts. Bents Ledge is situated nearby to the hamlet Shore Acres, as well as near Nonquitt.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Clarks Point Light and Dumpling Rocks Light.
Clarks Point Light
Lighthouse
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The Clarks Point Light is located in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Originally constructed as a wooden tower, it was replaced with a stone tower in 1804. This in turn was replaced by a structure on the parapets of Fort Rodman which was deactivated in 1898.
Dumpling Rocks Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Dumpling Rocks Light is a light on a skeleton tower on Dumpling Rock, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. It replaced the wooden Dumpling Rock Light, built 1889, which had replaced the original stone lighthouse established in 1829.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bliss Corner and New Bedford.
Bliss Corner
Hamlet
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bliss Corner is a census-designated place in the town of Dartmouth in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 5,280 at the 2010 census.
New Bedford
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New Bedford is in Massachusetts on the southern coast. New Bedford's excellent harbor made it a natural fishing and whaling center. It was the world's premier whaling port in the 19th century, and, for a time, "the richest city in the world" and "the city that lit the world" because of whale oil production.
Fairhaven
Photo: Schlitzer90, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fairhaven is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. It is located on the South Coast of Massachusetts where the Acushnet River flows into Buzzards Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean.
Bents Ledge
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Bristol, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.56844° or 41° 34′ 6″ northLongitude
-70.91365° or 70° 54′ 49″ westOpen location code
87HFH39P+9GOpenStreetMap ID
node 358273953OpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
4930448Wikidata ID
Q49632772
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Bents Ledge” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bents Ledge”
- Turkish: “Bents Ledge”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Shore Acres and Nonquitt.
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Highlights include Inez Rock and Lone Rock.
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